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Bottomless Bag - Na Kim
Isbn 9789492811790
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 20294
€ 24.35
Published with Na Kim’s eponymous solo exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art, which is dedicated to letting children explore the artist’s visual language through works in various mediums, this book offers a better understanding of those works and her oeuvre as a whole. The title, ‘Bottomless Bag’, is borrowed from the mysterious bag in the animated film ‘Inside Out’. The bag contains endless odds and ends belonging to the main character, which link her to her memories. It also recalls the “Object Bag”, which was widely used for educational purposes in elementary schools in Korea during the 1980s. As such, the exhibition becomes Na Kim’s bag containing her collection of work.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Karel Martens - Tokyo Papers
Isbn 9789492811837
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 20478
€ 26.30
‘Tokyo Papers’ comprises a collection of 41 monoprints created by Dutch graphic designer and typographer Karel Martens between 2019 and 2020. In 2018, Martens received a package from artist-curator Pierre Leguillon that contained filled-in Japanese forms which he had found at a street market in Tokyo. Martens was intrigued by the collection of thin paper with a rectangular black-blue layer of carbon on the back. In 2019 he started to print on these back sides, but because the overprinting on the carbon layer caused unwanted damage, he switched to printing them on the front sides as well. “The closing image is related to Tokyo in a different way,” he explains.
80 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English
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The Serving Library Annual 2020/21 (Objects)
Isbn 9789492811820
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 20441
€ 29.15
This year’s edition is published in tandem with a long-term installation of The Serving Library’s collection of (mostly) framed objects at 019, an artist-run space in Ghent, Belgium. Apparently, the sole common denominator of these objects – which range from paintings, photographs, and LP sleeves, to a can of green paint, a German license plate, and a Ouija board – is that they appeared as illustrations in an issue of ‘The Serving Library Annual’ or one of its immediate antecedents, ‘Bulletins of The Serving Library’ or ‘Dot Dot Dot’, sometime in the last 20 years. The present volume depicts the entire collection at the time of writing, arranged in chronological order of production.
218 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Raddar 2: Interiors
Isbn 9791095513094
Publisher T&P Publishing
Idea code 20442
€ 35.50
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a re-examination of the architecture and design of our interiors from a wide range of perspectives. As containment measures were imposed, the private dwelling became central to the lives of many people worldwide; no longer a simple accumulation of furniture and objects, the interior is an intimate, socio-cultural construction anchored in a precise moment of space and time. A text by Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, who has long worked on climate phenomena and is now looking at its relationship with the pandemic, is among the ten articles by international contributors in this issue, guest edited by design historian Penny Sparke.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, French/English
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Help Your Self - The Rise of Self-Design
Isbn 9789492095633
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20462
€ 25.00
Our identities used to be shaped by our communities, families, and friends, but in the online era we inhabit today, we are expected to write our own success stories on social media platforms. We design our own identity, create our own image, and present ourselves in the way we want to be seen. The various imaginative methods and ideas for upgrading oneself are seen as new forms of creativity, or “Self-Design”. Authored by designer, producer, and Image Society founder Mieke Gerritzen, ‘Help Your Self’ is an inspirational book for getting started with designing your perfect self. In addition, it offers reflections on the self-help industry as a relatively new phenomenon.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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A Labour Of Love
Isbn 9789462263918
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 20344
€ 65.00
Trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort works closely with Philip Fimmano, director of her Paris-based company, Trend Union. This beautifully designed volume introduces the new makers in contemporary design, previewing a future of responsible production, circular thinking, ethical practice, organic aesthetics, and more. The authors show how designers are giving shape to materials and processes, from reviving the loom and recycling waste material, to social inclusion and growing matter. Featuring numerous insightful and innovative designers who espouse conscious philosophies that will change our world through careful and considered choices, guiding us towards a better future.
448 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Purple 34: The Love Issue
Isbn 17668832
Publisher Purple Institute
Idea code 20466
€ 41.50
'Purple Fashion' is the avant-garde reference for fashion, style, and contemporary culture with the usual big names. In the 'love issue kenzo' contributions by Camille Henrot, Virgil Abloh, Philippe Parreno, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Saint Laurent, and many more.
450 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Self Service 53: More Than Ever
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Publisher Self Service
Idea code 20496
€ 31.50
Self Service 53, More Than Ever, features The Obsessions, The Considered, The Silhouette, Togetherness, Creative Landscapes and more. Now a sturdy paperback, this issue has contributions by David Sims, Melanie Ward, David Owen, and many others, a portfolio on Bless, on Paris, on Dover Street Market and plenty of fashion and coolness.
494 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Shame! And Masculinity
Isbn 9789492095923
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20463
€ 25.00
Since the #MeToo movement, the masculine exercise of power has been closely scrutinised. The focus on “toxic” masculinity impacts our perception of male sexuality, which substantially influences the self-image and self-esteem of men. Men are being shamed by others, and they also feel ashamed. This book explores both positions, examining the representation of male sexuality, nudity, fatherhood, violence, rape, fascism and virility, and men and war from male as well as female perspectives. It presents artworks that deal with the intricacies and contradictions of these sociocultural constructs and realities, and combines scholarly essays with short stories and personal testimonies.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Project Catalogue Graduation Show 2020 Design Academy Eindhoven
Isbn 9789491400452
Publisher Design Academy Eindhoven
Idea code 20450
€ 39.00
Published by the Design Academy Eindhoven on the occasion of its 2020 graduation show, this catalogue is an example of what has been referred to as the “extreme present”. At once intimidating and intoxicating, it is built around a reality that is in a state of permanent and accelerated flux. Our relevance is dependent on our ability to uninterruptedly interpret this evolving reality, and it is exhausting. The graduation projects presented here were largely conceived in a past that today seems very distant, one in which things were taken for granted that today, in a world defined by the pandemic, seem unthinkable. However, in many ways this body of work is also anticipatory…
506 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Carlo Mollino - Designs
Isbn 9788822905178
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 20458
€ 19.35
Hailing from Turin, the multitalented Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905–1973) became renowned in his lifetime for his many interests and complex personality. In the early 1930s he began his versatile career by designing and realising buildings and interiors primarily in the Piedmont capital and the Western Alps. This publication presents a new reading of Mollino’s life and his very personal idea of contemporary architecture in light of unpublished archival documents. The works produced by the furniture company Zanotta featured here cover a time frame of 21 years, from the designs for the Miller house (1938) up until the Fenis alpine chair (1959).
112 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Mission Blue-Green
Isbn 9789526400044
Publisher Aalto University
Idea code 20460
€ 37.50
We are undeniably living in an era of enormous environmental crisis with climate change and species extinction as the most outstanding features of it. These issues challenge our societal systems and relationship with nature. In addition, more than half of the planet's population live in urban areas, where environmental problems tend to culminate and where counteractive efforts should be concentrated. How can landscape architecture solve these urgent problems? This dissertation provides new scientific knowledge on collaborative planning and design of urban socio-ecological systems.
138 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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When Skillful Participation Becomes Design: Making Clothes Together
Isbn 9789526089256
Publisher Aalto University
Idea code 20459
€ 40.00
Design, use, and participation intersect in novel ways when a diverse community of people come together to make clothes. Anja-Lisa Hirscher's book examines the fluidity that flourishes at these intersections by introducing findings from three “research through design” experiments which brought communities together to sew, upcycle, and design new garments. The study examines concepts of skillful participation in alternative spaces of peer production and the designer’s role in facilitating the social and material aspects of making clothes together.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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In/search Re/search - Imagining Scenarios Through Art and Design
Isbn 9789492095800
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20461
€ 19.90
Solid research skills are crucial for artists and designers hoping to contribute viable and alternative ways of thinking to counter neoliberalism. This volume presents projects that shift the perspective, alter understanding, and open up new possibilities in the quest to discover what is not yet known or understood. This research strives for a more transdisciplinary way forward, outside the bubbles of graduation shows, gallery openings, and funding cycles. The projects are structured into twelve topical themes, each embedded in a recent news story that positions how that topic is approached by mainstream media. Responses from various academic contributors conclude each chapter.
420 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Sound American 24 - The Sun Ra Issue
Isbn 9781733333917
Publisher Sound American
Idea code 20402
€ 16.15
A quarterly journal founded in 2012 by Nate Wooley, providing in-depth interviews and essays, 'Sound American' starts from a simple desire to open the doors of experimental music to a wider audience. Sound American believes that music is for everyone and should be shared on the most basic human level. The 24th issue of the New York music magazine focuses on the figure of Sun Ra. Sun Ra (1914–1993) is an African-American experimental jazz pianist and composer. A prolific artist, he recorded over 100 albums with his band, the Sun Ra Arkestra.
116 p, ills bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Cubic Journal 3: Design Making
Isbn 9789492852106
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 20432
€ 24.35
Technological changes continue to evolve the act of making, the actualisation of design agency, in different contexts. As such, design-making imposes demands upon design praxis in both disciplinary and professional contexts. Clients and young designers wonder why design-makers rely on expensive and time-consuming processes in making concepts a reality, as it seems a difficult path to justify. This issue examines making and the value structures connected to this premise, before and after execution. Fifteen authors and research teams present their work in design research, providing a diverse range of creative and scholarly enterprises from several regions of the world.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Italian Scraps
Isbn 9788875708498
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 20439
€ 48.00
A trip across Italy on board a blue van which has been transformed into a mobile home, a central theme when cooking offal, known as the quinto quarto or fifth quarter: spleen, liver, lampredotto, pig's feet, entrails that are cooked with traditional recipes such as trippa alla romana or coratella brodettata. During ten months on the road, Valentina Raffaelli and Luca Boscardin explored the country in search of culinary traditions associated with offal, and describe it through drawings, photographs, and local recipes.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Shimura Fukumi - Her Vocation To Weave Life
Isbn 9784808711320
Publisher Tokyo Bijutsu
Idea code 20315
€ 24.30
This book appears in conjunction with an exhibition of work by Fukumi Shimura from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Shiga. Born in 1924, Shimura began to independently study the vocation of dyeing and weaving after being divorced at the age of 32. As an artist, she embraces the rich variety and harmony of colours which she has extracted from plants and then transferred to silk yarn, and her pure, sincere attitude towards nature is mirrored in her great respect for the natural sources of her materials. Her own in-depth studies of Japanese culture and classics imbue her woven textiles with a sense of the importance that colours have for the Japanese people.
208 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Swords Of Japan
Isbn 9784808710712
Publisher Tokyo Bijutsu
Idea code 20322
€ 22.10
The sword is a widely recognised cultural symbol of Japan. Japanese swords are fundamentally weapons, and yet the high level of skill involved in the production of a beautiful and effective sword greatly increases its value, making them both sacred objects and symbols of authority. The way in which a particular sword is manufactured reflects the period in which it was made. By examining the finely polished surface steel and various patterns of the hardened edge, one can determine the province, school, and even maker. This illustrated handbook offers an educative look at the history, evolution, production, fittings and mountings, and appraisal of these elegant blades.
132 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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An Introduction To Kimono
Isbn 9784808711559
Publisher Tokyo Bijutsu
Idea code 20314
€ 24.30
The kimono is widely recognised as a traditional element of Japanese culture. The origins of this colourful and highly symbolic garment can be found in the Heian period, when similar large-sleeved clothing was worn by the nobility. This book introduces kimonos worn by women and examines how they have changed in many ways over the years, as well as the variations according to the wearer’s social class, how different kimonos were worn during different seasons, and how the obi and various accessories have also evolved. The history and explanations offered here are written in an easily understandable way, also for the non-Japanese reader who is interested in Japanese culture.
128 p, ills colour, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Revue Faire - (23,24,25,26) Vol 7
Isbn 9791095991175
Publisher Editions Empire
Idea code 20438
€ 27.95
'Faire' is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to graphic design, published from October to June, distributed each two months in the form of anthologies of three or four issues. In this issue: 'A portrait: The Master approving of his own work', 'A theater identity: The Schauspielhaus by Cornel Windlin', 'Exhibition views?: Jonathan Monk', and 'A system of production: Print on Demand'.
76 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Is It Good Enough...
Isbn 9789462261433
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 20362
€ 15.00
This monograph is about developing and evaluating design concepts, and why that skill is crucial in tackling complex problems. It shows how the strength derived from trusting your intuition can result in concepts and solutions, for everyone from Schiphol Airport to elderly people living with dementia and the engineers trying to rid the oceans of the ‘plastic soup’. The central message: keep asking yourself ‘Is it good enough?’
64 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, hb, English
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